Identity area
Reference code
Add. MS a/199/11
Title
Verses in Greek and Latin by Richard Shilleto and others
Date(s)
- 1833-1882 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 folder
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Given to E. Harrison by Frederick James Dykes, who was sent them by W. Wollaston Groome in May 1919. Groome removed them from a book of cuttings belonging with William Hepworth Thompson. Groome's father Archdeacon Groome was a friend of Thompson.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Gift of Ernest Harrison, May 1933.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Drafts of poems and printed poems by Shilleto, Robert Burn, Sir William Hamilton, Morris Moore, Richard Okes, as well as those signed with initals only: J. B., H., and W. S. [William Selwyn?]. Poems include Hamilton's "Sonnet on the Meeting of the… read more
Conditions of access and use area
Language of material
- Ancient Greek
- French
- Latin